I'll keep it short. We toured Auschwitz today. The tour guide is giving a few brief instructions before we set out. One of his last comments was to please not pose for pictures with the concentration camp in the background. Seems like a completely normal and respectful request. Nah, two people are posing for pics within a few minutes of the tour starting. Nothing says vacation like posing on the railroad tracks that lead to death of 1.3 million people! Secondly, prior to entering a gas chamber (an extremely sobering experience), the guide asks for silence while walking through it, out of respect for those who perished there. It took all of 30 seconds to pass through the gas chamber. Not even halfway in, a woman is asking the guide how long people would live once the gas was dropped in. Luckily the guide handled it well (i.e. didn't punch her in the face like I wanted to). In short, people suck wherever you go. Savages! The lot of 'em!

I'll keep it short. We toured Auschwitz today ....

Those disrespectful pricks.

Now get the war paint and head dress so we can properly recognize a group that experienced genocide

The Redskins will NEVER change their name!

You wanna sightsee? Get on a bus.

Jesus Christ, no wonder you people are so miserable. Get better vacation spots. Buy a bathing suit, for fucks sake.

I toured Buchenwald a couple years back. Was a very moving experience. We did not have a guided tour but everyone did their own with the headphones. I saw some folks taking a few pics through out the camp but did not see anything that was disrespectful. Hard to take everything in at a place like that.

Ha, yep. 10-day European vacation. 11 of those days will be spent at concentration camps.

I went to Dachau earlier this summer. They don't have guides there, you just walk where you please. People were posing for pictures IN THE GAS CHAMBER. Just horrible. Not only that, but the area around Dachau was developed and people had back yards that looked out on the camp. Made me sick.

I got the distinct feeling while in Germany that they really do not feel bad about that stuff at all. But they will do and say what the world wants just to be left alone.

And yes, American tourists generally suck.

No more than any tourists.

I tend to disagree. A lot of it depends on where you are going, what you are doing and your general expense account I guess. My experiences have been US tourists are by far the most annoying, demanding and least interested in experiencing surroundings as they exist as opposed to expectations these things transform to what murica would do. It is annoying.

If you find the Japanese affinity for multiple picture taking as annoying, I can see that. But they aren't actively being douches in the process, other than being somewhat clueless of their surroundings.

I tend to disagree. A lot of it depends on where you are going, what you are doing and your general expense account I guess. My experiences have been US tourists are by far the most annoying, demanding and least interested in experiencing surroundings as they exist as opposed to expectations these things transform to what murica would do. It is annoying.

If you find the Japanese affinity for multiple picture taking as annoying, I can see that. But they aren't actively being douches in the process, other than being somewhat clueless of their surroundings.

I tend to disagree. A lot of it depends on where you are going, what you are doing and your general expense account I guess. My experiences have been US tourists are by far the most annoying, demanding and least interested in experiencing surroundings as they exist as opposed to expectations these things transform to what murica would do. It is annoying.

If you find the Japanese affinity for multiple picture taking as annoying, I can see that. But they aren't actively being douches in the process, other than being somewhat clueless of their surroundings.

But being clueless of the surroundings is the entire issue with all foreigners. I hate the stereotype of the "ugly American". I've seen plenty of ugly Europeans and ugly Middle Easterners.

But being clueless of the surroundings is the entire issue with all foreigners. I hate the stereotype of the "ugly American". I've seen plenty of ugly Europeans and ugly Middle Easterners.

I don't know where you have traveled beni, but all the times I've been to Disney World the foreign tourists were BY FAR the worst.

I don't know where you have traveled beni, but all the times I've been to Disney World the foreign tourists were BY FAR the worst.